Pippa Middleton: I Have a “Normal, Sisterly Relationship” with Kate

Since she became internationally known by her first name alone after the royal wedding in 2011, Pippa Middleton has been (along with a certain sibling of hers) almost single-handedly keeping the British tabloid industry afloat. Pippa has taken on all sorts of endeavors, writing a book, completing intense athletic competitions, and, of course, contributing to Vanity Fair. But she has yet to give an on-camera interview . . . (cue movie-trailer-voiceover voice) . . . until now.

Pippa recently sat down with the Today show’s Matt Lauer in London for an interview which will air in two parts, on Monday and Tuesday of this coming week. (The Daily Beast notes that NBC has been making “bids and counter-offers” for the first Pippa tête-à-tête over the course of “years.”) In a preview made available by NBC, Pippa tells Lauer that “not much” has changed between her and her sister since Kate officially became a duchess. “Obviously she has pressures that she’s taken on and things,” Pippa said, assessing that the Middleton family does a good job of, as they say, keeping it real: “We spend a lot of time together. We still do a lot together as a family. And I think that’s really the heart for all of us is having a really close family that we can sort of be normal with each other, treat each other normally. And that’s sort of kept us all, you know, affixed to the ground.”

But, like, can she still text Kate cute pictures of dogs and random images of George she finds online? According to Pippa, yes. “Yeah,” she responded, when Lauer asked if she can call Kate whenever she wants and say, “Hey, Kate, it’s Pippa. Let’s just do girl talk like we used to” (we’re sure that’s just how she’d say it, Matt). Pippa continued, “Yeah, we do have a normal, sisterly relationship. We’re very close. And, you know, we support each other and get each other’s opinions and things.”